Compiling and analysing a rat brain connectome database from 50 years of research:

Albert Cardona@mathstodon.xyz to Rats@fedia.io · 2 months ago

“Neural network architecture of a mammalian brain”, by Swanson et al. 2024
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.241342212

While not densely reconstructed, this study highlights interesting properties of the rat brain. Among them, comparisons across sexes and across hemispheres.

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